I know. What a loser I am.

I wouldn't go that far jonny.

What surprises me is that the Official site now gives us lots more info but on this matter nothing.

Why ? It is more and more likely that someone on this thread has posted the real reason.

Jonny might set up a poll but I bet he doesn't after going down to the club for his packet



I can't go out because it is too cold' TV is boring me to death and I have no red wine left.

Still I am glad Adam Clay has signed and hope Thornley does too.

Put some heyley westenra on Frank sit back and relax.

Asda and tesco are 24 hours, so go and get some wine

It's too cold for him Lynda, plus he's on a fixed income you know, although he never tells anyone.

Nobody mention bloody floodlights to me...!

Id like to Chase-Tise you

put the Heating on if your Cowd

Owd uns like you get this heating allowance , dont be so tight

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Before i forget ,"Seasons Greetings" Old Chum

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Obviously as any other stadium shopping etc there is a problem with pigeons. Health and safety and humane rights mean that they cannot be shot anymore so they are hunted by a hawk. Unfortunately during this process the hawk decided to take the opportunity to liberate itself so the lights were on trying to locate it.

Pigeons are rats with wings and are allowed to be shot with the biggest gun you can hold. If you could hold a gattling gun you could use it but I don't think the LSV would be too happy with the damage. So you use a 1.77 air rifle with point nose slugs. The hawk thing was used so that it would scare the vermin away on match days. They usually use Harris hawks because they are the Mike Tyson or Jet Lee of hawks. Personally I would wait for them to roost turn off the lights and use the air rifle and an infra red beam. Or better still we could raise money buy having a pigeon shoot and sell a beat to the hunting lords of Leigh. Useless to eat these birds as they carry all sorts of eye deforming and internal organ damaging diseases. What is good fun is when they are flocking shoot at them with a shot gun with a wide spread shell and see how many you can drop with one shot. Which reminds me must renew my animal rights subscription.

I was thinking exactly the same thing Tony , whats more ' humane ' , having a hawk rip them to bits , or a quick pellet through the brain ?

Thing is the hawk would catch one eat it and rest untill it gets hungry. It wont have chicks this time of year so will only hunt for it's self. It's quite amusing to watch when I have been rigging at Cardiff and they let the hawks go, the pigeons and seaguls scarper.

Well I thought they had incredibly small brains so you would have to be a good shot.

I notice though no one has mentioned fire arms certificates' or that Jonny has not done a poll.

Looking more and more likely my explanation was right in the first place.

I still think yours is the more likely Frank.

"The hawk thing was used so that it would scare the vermin away on match days."

That is no way to treat Wigan fans, it is only a Friendly and we get the full gate money.

Grass requires light to manufacture food by the process of photosynthesis. Maybe the floodlights were kept on to increase the rate of photosynthesis so that more food could be made by the grass to make it grow quicker. This would help the pitch to recover from the wear and tear received on a match day.

You get the prize - who could argue with a scientifically correct answer?

Its grass and artifical mixed isn't it?

Yes, but the grass still grows naturally.

It is a kinky sex thing we all know.

Wouldn't be surprised though if someone posted it was a badger hunt and had something to do with cattle tubercolosis.

After all it is well known ungulates are allowed to graze at the LSV at night.

We need to know and Jonny not doing a poll shows the real reason.

I really would have liked to believe your explanation Frank, but you couldn't/weren't willing to give it credibilty by admitting you were there. Therefore, I have had to go with the explanation that baffled me with science - I'm afraid your use of big words, like 'ungulate' came just to late to sway the decision in your favour! (anyway, wouldn't the hooves damage the pitch?

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no but cheerleaders do apparently

Well I am a bit of a Sherlock Holmes type on this.

When you are presented with a number of theories why such and such happened always pick the obvious or most likely.

It is usually the right one.

Bet he was involved

Possibly, although if it had been a thread about the LSV windows having been knockd out.............